Mos EspaMos Espa
 Mos Espa Spaceport
is one of relatively few cities on Tatooine, born out of the
desert and built piece by piece over many years. Domed
buildings protect the citizens against the sun and the
scorching heat. Among the dwellings, work spaces, and
commercial operations of many bizarre kinds there are
also entertainment areas, including some of colossal
scale. The largest of these can hold an audience almost
as large as the city's entire population.
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Most of Mos Espa's
inhabitants are settlers and subsistence earners who
scratch out a meager living as best they can. The only
real wealth in Mos Espa is tied up in gambling and
off-world trade, especially in the lucrative black market
beyond the trade laws and controls of the Galactic
Republic. 
Slavery persists
in Mos Espa, though it has long been banned within the
Republic. Live slaves function more as prestige
possessions than cheap laborers, and owners part with
them only reluctantly. Slaves can even find themselves
used as capital in business transactions. The true powers
in control of Mos Espa are wealthy gangsters, who find
slavery a useful institution for their purposes. Far from
the justice of the Galactic Republic, criminal underlords
find little opposition to their chosen methods of rule in
the outworlds.